Letters

The Germ of Corruption

In his review of my book A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of American Political Corruption (April 20), Matthew Spalding states that I offer a “neo-anti-federalist account” of corruption, and that the Bank of the United States heralded an era of “living constitutionalism,” facilitating a “slippery slope” of “rampant corruption.” This inaccurate characterization elides key points of my theory and ignores most of my research.